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Staff+ Software Engineer, Kubernetes Platform

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and operating the Kubernetes-based control plane for Anthropic's large-scale AI compute fleets, including scheduler extensions, control plane scaling, and core cluster services."

Responsibilities

  • Own, operate, and extend the Kubernetes scheduler for Anthropic's accelerator fleets, including custom scheduling plugins and policies for gang scheduling, topology awareness, and preemption
  • Scale the Kubernetes control plane (apiserver, etcd, controller-manager) to support clusters far beyond typical limits, and find the next bottleneck before it finds us
  • Design, build, and operate core cluster services such as service discovery that every workload in the fleet depends on
  • Build and maintain custom controllers, operators, and CRDs
  • Partner with research, training, and inference to understand workload shapes and turn their requirements into platform capabilities
  • Collaborate with cloud providers on required features and escalations
  • Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and design processes (postmortems, runbooks, SLOs) that help the team avoid repeating failures

Qualifications

  • Significant software engineering experience building and operating production distributed systems
  • Proficiency in at least one systems-appropriate language (e.g., Go, Python, Rust, or C++)
  • Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience (well beyond "user of”) into scheduler, controllers, apiserver, or operating large multi-tenant clusters
  • Demonstrated ability to debug complex issues across the stack, from API behavior down to node and network-level root causes
  • A track record of designing for reliability, correctness, and clear failure semantics in systems other engineers depend on
  • Strong written and verbal communication; comfort building consensus with internal stakeholders

Skills

Required:Kubernetes schedulerdistributed systemsGo / Python / Rust / C++

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space in San Francisco
  • Safety and compliance guidance during application process
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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